Wentu | distant mountains and ink rain
It is late autumn and winter is approaching, we continue to receive reminders and forecasts that a cold wave is coming, but Kunming still maintains a sunny and cool autumn weather.
Weekend activities as scheduled, attracted many friends to participate, everyone wants to enjoy the warm sunshine, not to mention this weekend the group arranged activities is to climb Kunming Xiangyang Mountain, just listen to the name makes people full of yearning, after the actual trip, we are not disappointed.
Xiangyang Mountain is located in the eastern part of Kunming City, northwest of Yangzonghai, it is the junction of Guandu District, Chenggong District, Yiliang County, it is said that there is a geographical indication stele on the mountain, marking the boundaries of the three places.
We walked on the south side of Xiangyang Mountain, did not see this landmark monument, the leader said that if you climb from the direction of Laoye Mountain, you can encounter this stone monument.
At 8:30 a.m., we chartered two tourist buses from Tuodong Stadium and arrived at The Daspot Industrial Park more than an hour later.
From there at about 9:50, climb several mountains such as Xiangyang Mountain and Yanusu Mountain, arrive at Qidian Town at about 16:20 to end the hike, the mobile phone software records the walking distance of more than 10 kilometers, 74 partners participate in the activity, and the walking area is located in the east of Kunming City.
Sunny and cloudless, we had a lovely walk on our first weekend hike in November.
Schematic diagram of the trajectory of the trip and the elevation rise and fall.
Starting point: Daspot Industrial Park, ending point: Qidian Town.
Standing at the top of the mountain at an altitude of more than 2,500 meters, we can clearly see yangzonghai, overlooking Dianchi Lake in the distance, and a cloud village in the north.
It feels like the names of the area are all good, a cloud is a village; to its north, there is a mountain called a handful of clouds.
Straight up and down, climbing the Sunny Mountain, there is a little difficulty, but walk happily.
The event notice said that this trip has a certain degree of difficulty, the altitude rises and falls, which is the recognition obtained by the leader leading the strong donkeys after several times to explore the line, it is said that many strong donkeys take this line is also quite laborious, and it turns out that it is not alarmist.
In the morning, we have been climbing, and the afternoon trip is mainly downhill, the slope is not too small, and some sections are crossed between the grass that is higher than people, where there is no road, it is the front team members who have worked hard to open the road, and they have stepped out of the road in a desert.
Brightly dressed teams weave through the mountains like ribbons, contrasting each other and creating a beautiful picture.
Dasho Industrial Park is located in Daxiao Village, which is a village in Qidian Street, the visual village is not large, but it is very rich, the villagers' courtyards are very grand, modern small Western-style buildings, large courtyards abound, street shops, complete facilities.
The village is located on the side of the old Shi'an Highway, the traffic is convenient, there are many factories in the park, there are many food production enterprises settled here, in the village we met a few Hunan people, they do business here all year round, to provide some supporting services for the factories in the park;
We went up a trail behind the village, and the lower slopes of the hill were reclaimed for fields, planted with crops such as grain and vegetables, and villagers worked in the fields.
The weather is clear, the sky is blue, there is no trace of clouds, in this particularly transparent background, the distant mountains appear majestic and handsome, the silver-white electric towers are distributed among the mountains, looking down the tower, to go to the highest tower, we can reach the top of the sunny mountain, from the foot of the mountain, it seems to be a very distant target.
The roads up the mountain are varied, and the journey down the mountain is not easy. The front team has worked hard to open up the road and cut through thorns, and can always find a way forward for everyone.
Walking through grass-covered paths, rugged rocks, and deeply grassed mountain roads, climbing up, crossing them, and downhill over obstacles, we all gladly accepted.
From time to time, the clothes were glued with the black thorns of the ghost needle grass, and everyone had the right to practice a "grass boat borrowing arrows", ignoring it, walking on a section, and the ghost needle grass stuck on the clothes actually fell a lot on its own...
As we walked, we were attracted by all kinds of interesting things on the side of the road. From time to time, the smell of lemongrass comes to the nose, that is, the spices used to grill fish and roast meat in southern Yunnan, which smell very good; there is a little silver light on the sand and gravel path, shining and shining in the sun, and everyone laughs that there may be some treasure here;
The mountain flowers in winter are not bright, but they are very unique, wild dams, gentian purple, aconitum flowers, and many other flowers that cannot be named, they all have their own unique beauty, quietly blooming in the mountains.
Visually there are several kinds of flowers like dried flowers, guess it is adapted to the weather here, in the dry and sunny environment to find a suitable way to grow, white, gray, yellow, red... All year round, there is no shortage of flowers in the mountains, and when we walk into the mountains, we will always have some surprises.
The bright red lychee on Xiangyang Mountain is a beautiful gift from nature.
The vast mountains are like a huge treasure trove, indispensable flowers, even less fruit, the most eye-catching wild fruits of this season, is the red and colorful mountain lychee.
There are many wild mountain lychees on Xiangyang Mountain, and it is the season of hanging fruits, the fruits here are large, colorful and sweet, and picking mountain lychees has become one of the most attractive contents of this trip.
The name of this wild fruit is mountain lychee because its appearance is somewhat similar to that of lychee: red skin, evenly distributed small pores, the peel is uneven, a little undulating;
The Yunnan people also call it chicken nut, supposedly because the surface of this wild fruit resembles a part of the chicken; the chicken is a sac from the neck of the chicken to the chest where food is temporarily stored.
Chicken fruit can be edible, the flesh is slightly yellow, multi-seeded, sweet, with a slight bitter taste, it is said that it has medicinal effects, folk often use it for digestion, in addition to accumulation of food and other medicinal uses.
The flowers of the chicken nut are yellow-green four-petaled flowers, which match the dense green leaves and are suitable for the thickness, just like small butterflies resting in the treetops, and the flowering season is very spectacular.
Because this tree is adaptable and easy to maintain, many places use it for urban greening purposes, and now we can see it on the street and in the park;
However, when we climbed to the top of Xiangyang Mountain, when the rows of chicken seeds full of fruits were presented in front of us, we were still shocked and excited for a while, and the next action was to pick the fruits, taste, and take pictures... The taste of childhood and the scenery of harvest picking are also a happy act for us who are not young enough.
At the top of the mountain and along the ridge, there are many chicken and fruit trees distributed. Unlike the thick and tall trees planted in the city, most of the wild fruit trees are not too tall, but the canopy is dense, the branches are developed, and the red fruits are hung between the thick green leaves, heavy and bent branches.
Everyone is careful when picking fruit, pay attention to protecting the branches, must not break the branches, can not destroy its growth; ripe fruit falls on the ground, printed the land under the tree, pick up the fruit on the ground to taste, very sweet and beautiful, that is a "melon ripe and falling" feeling.
We went all the way, picked all the way, tasted all the way. Chicken fruit, mountain lychee, it is not particularly delicious, but it is a beautiful gift given to us by nature, the joy of picking, for a long time lingering in everyone's heart, has become an important harvest of hiking activities.
For the first weekend hike in November, we climbed Kunming's Qidian Xiangyang Mountain and picked the bright red lychees of the mountain, which was very pleasant. Winter is about to begin, and we greet winter by hiking and climbing the mountain.
(Saturday, 6 November 2021)